Connor, who has been known to many of you as a quiet, easy baby for most of his life, has become much more...vocal, we'll call it. For a child who can still only gum his food, he eats an impressive range and amount of food. No one is allowed to eat anything under Connor's very watchful gaze now. If he is not getting it, no matter what it may be, he screams with a volume and pitch that is attention-getting to say the least. We've also been trying to teach him the sign for more, but he has found that when he signs more we calmly say okay, and casually begin to go about the business of getting more food. Screaming his head off, however, has the effect of getting us both to run to get him the first food product we can find. You guess which method he tends to prefer.
"Yay!" is sort of out right now, though he still likes to clap. While our friend Suzanne was here, she and Jamie would play "Yum yums," which was really Suzanne's clever way of getting Jamie to eat things like broccoli, while they would both say "yum yum." Connor liked this very much and joined in saying "mum mum mum mum."
He has also developed a number of words and has said at various times, "Daddy," "Mommy," "Jamie," and, to Nana and Pops's cat, "Kitty." Indicative of our world in Vermont, he is also interested in birds now and may have said "bird" today. Still he prefers to scream.
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I had forgotten to tell you, but about a week after you left, Liam said, "You miss Connor's Yays, don't you, Mama?" I hope he doesn't lose his Yay forever!
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